The Conditions of Peace

The Conditions of Peace
Peace is inevitable
to those who offer peace.

Peace is an attribute in you.
You cannot find it outside.

When the wish for peace is genuine,
the means for finding it is given
in a form each mind that seeks for it
in honesty can understand.

Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him
in such a way that he cannot mistake it,
if his asking is sincere.
But if he asks without sincerity,
there is no form in which the lesson
will meet with acceptance
and be truly learned.

"I want the peace of God."
To say these words is nothing.
But to mean these words is everything.

the mind which means that all it wants is peace
must join with other minds,
for that is how peace is obtained.

the only way to have peace
is to teach peace.

Do you not think the world needs peace
as much as you do?

Do you not want to give it to the world
as much as you want to receive it?
For unless you do, you will not receive it.

When you have accepted your mission
to extend peace
you will find peace,
for by making it manifest you will see it.

Remember that you came
to bring the peace of God into the world.

If peace is the condition of truth and sanity,
and cannot be without them,
where peace is they must be.

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind,
It cannot come where there is conflict,
for a mind at war against itself
remembers not eternal gentleness.

When the light comes at last
into the mind given to contemplation;
or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone,
it always comes with just one happy realization:
"I need do nothing.":

Those who offer peace to everyone
have found a home in Heaven
the world cannot destroy.
For it is large enough to hold the world
within its peace.

No one who truly seeks the peace of God
can fail to find it.
For he merely asks that he deceive himself no longer
by denying to himself what is God's Will.
Who can remain unsatisfied
who asks for what he has already?

The peace of God is shining in you now,
and in all living things.
In quietness is it acknowledged universally.



The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace.
And let me bless them with the light in me.